In the imperial city, two ox carts departing from Prince Yu's mansion attracted a lot of attention.

The ox cart is covered with black cloth, so I can't see clearly what it is inside.

However, seeing Liu Mingqi and a fat man following along the side on a horse and heading towards the palace, some people still had associations.

"I'm going to give gifts to the emperor again. Humph, what a flatterer!"

Lu Guogong Liu Minghua stood in the attic, looking at the figure that was leaving, and said disgustingly.

"Haha, second brother, you can't say that. Being able to flatter is also an advantage." Another man who looked a little bit three-point like him said, "Didn't the emperor like him more and more?"

"Bah!"

Liu Minghua became even more annoyed, "Liu Mingqi, this bastard, didn't know where to get these strange things... Especially "Jiangjinjiu", he must have copied it! I will expose him sooner or later!!"

The man said, "So, have you found a flaw?"

"Not yet." Liu Minghua said angrily, "He must have hidden the original author, just because he is afraid that we will find it!"

"In fact, it doesn't matter whether he can find it or not." The man said lightly: "As long as we find another opportunity to write a poem in an impromptu manner, will we be able to make a judgment? Without real skills, it is absolutely impossible to do it with urgency! At that time, the higher he was praised before, the worse he would fall!"

"yes!"

Liu Minghua began to think about it.

I don't know what he thought of, but a smug smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The man next to him turned his eyes away with a smile, and a trace of viciousness flashed through his eyes.

Liu Mingqi didn't know that someone was targeting him, so he was happy to do another experiment of himself.

I had known that he was coming for a long time, and Qian Xianrui, one of the three chief eunuchs in the palace, was already waiting for him at the gate of the palace.

"Oh, my prince, you are finally here!" Qian Xianrui smiled and greeted Liu Mingqi and said, "You said you will come at noon. The Empress Dowager has been waiting for you for a while!"

"Some things were delayed, but fortunately they arrived." Liu Mingqi said: "Eunuch Qian, you told them to be careful when transporting them and never break them!"

"Okay!"

Qian Xianrui greeted the eunuchs below and transported all the parts on the two ox carts and placed them on a small cart that could be transported in the palace.

Of course, the cart was filled with straw according to Liu Mingqi's requirements to avoid collisions.

"You have attracted many people's interest in the transformation of Cining Palace these days." Qian Xianrui accompanied Liu Mingqi inside, "Including Concubine Chen, Concubine Shen, Concubine Xu, and Li Shuyi, they all sent palace maids and eunuchs to come to see him. They all arrived today, and the gate of Cining Palace is very lively."

"Grandma Huang doesn't bother with it?" Liu Mingqi said in surprise.

"No, the Empress Dowager is a peaceful person by nature and loves his family. He has hardly punished anyone in the palace for so many years. Everyone loves her." Qian Xianrui smiled and said, "Besides, everyone is just watching the fun. The palace is quite boring. It is rare to have such a chance, and the Empress Dowager will not stop her."

Liu Mingqi has a slight jaw.

The palaces of the Dakang Dynasty were still much dirty, but because the emperors were observing the ancestral teachings, no major incident happened.

Especially the palace maids and eunuchs, because they have little power and the emperor is very generous, they can basically be at peace with each other.

Cining Palace is located west of the palace, and is usually the place where the Empress Dowager lives.

Of course, it is not all forever. If the former Empress Dowager died in Cining Palace, the next Empress Dowager would move to the nearby Shoukang Palace, and then the next would move to the slightly further Shouan Palace, and the fourth would move back.

Now the Empress Dowager is just the turn of Cining Palace.

The Cining Palace is quite far from the palace gate. You have to pass through the Hall of Supreme Harmony in parallel. After the Hall of Zhonghe and Baohe Hall, there is the Cining Gate, and when you enter, it is the Cining Palace.

Originally, Liu Mingqi thought everyone was waiting outside the Cining Gate to watch the fun, but she didn't expect that she was waiting directly on the open space at the entrance of Cining Palace.

He was shocked when he first entered, and then he understood why Qian Xianrui would mention it specifically.

Because there were more than fifty palace maids and eunuchs gathered here, they all looked at Liu Mingqi and the strollers next to them.

"Hello, Your Highness, Prince!" They saluted together.

"Thank you all, everyone!"

The boy who almost learned from my Taizu in the dynasty ignored these idle people and took Fang Lei and Dazhu to remind everyone to move the things in carefully.

The Empress Dowager was resting in the palace at this time. When she heard that her grandson was coming, she walked to the door of her restroom with a smile and looked out, like an ordinary old man.

As the saying goes, the younger son and the older grandson are the heart of the old woman.

King Yu was the youngest son of the empress dowager, and the eldest son was the emperor. He had to have various teachings and etiquette requirements since childhood, but he did not have the unrestrained young son to be close to him.

Even the empress dowager also loved Liu Mingqi very much. Last time when Liu Mingqi fell into the water and almost died, the empress dowager couldn't help but leave the palace and visited his grandson.

When he saw her, Liu Mingqi quickly came forward and bowed to the end: "Mingqi has met Grandma Huang, how are the Grandma Huang lately?"

The Dakang Zu system stipulates that unless it is on a formal occasion or during a festival, even if you meet the emperor, empress dowager, empress, etc., you only need to bow formally. It is not like my Qing Dynasty, you will kneel every time.

The Empress Dowager looked at her tall grandson with a smile on her face: "Come on, Mingqi, let Grandma Huang see if she has grown up again recently?"

"I also think I've grown taller." Liu Mingqi stood in front of the empress dowager and let the empress dowager touch his head on tiptoe.

"Well... I've grown one inch taller!"

The Empress Dowager smiled and put down her hand, "Wait for two more years, Mingqi will grow taller again. Grandma Huang may be too old to stand up, so she will not be able to touch your head."

"Don't talk nonsense." Liu Mingqi immediately said angrily: "You must have lived a long life, that is, you are in the palace. Otherwise, my son will be born, and my grandmother will still have to help me take care of you!"

“Hahaha…”

The empress dowager was so happy that she didn't care about the palace maids and eunuchs next to her that she lowered her heads.

Even the emperor said this, it was a bit beyond the ritual, let alone the prince's prince.

If anyone sued him, I am afraid that His Royal Highness will not be able to bear it.

But judging from the appearance of the Empress Dowager and like him very much, I dare not get into trouble with this.

They guessed it right.

What kind of cautious people have never seen in the Queen Mother's life? What kind of respect has never been accepted?

The only thing I have never enjoyed is the uninterrupted family affection like the common people.

No one has ever given her this before.

But since Liu Mingqi fell into the water, she came to visit her several times in the palace and used a very ordinary tone and did not have much awe, which made the empress dowager feel fresh.

Besides, Liu Mingqi is the son of her favorite youngest son, so it feels even more different.

Otherwise, this time Liu Mingqi dug bricks, burying copper tubes, etc. in her bedroom, then she would not be happy.

As for the elderly, they always don’t want anything to change.

Fang Lei next to him was not qualified to enter. He looked at the situation here and then went to greet people and moved all the things to the small room next to the Empress Dowager's bedroom...

When Liu Mingqi and the Empress Dowager also came in, Fang Lei had already directed the eunuchs to insert the water outlet pipe under the toilet into the pre-buried sewer pipe.

The boy had already made all preparations, including the copper pipe on the top, just use connections and installation.

Fang Lei looked at the operating principle of the copper water tank yesterday. Today, when Liu Mingqi was trying to install parts, he completely understood the principle of the toilet.

In the eyes of the little genius in the physics of the Dakang Dynasty, although this device is exquisite, it actually uses the mechanism theory... Well, there is not much physics knowledge.

In addition to the common buoyancy Sikong, the slightly more interesting one is the "siphon principle".

Liu Mingqi pointed to the place and drank it several times to show him. Based on his actual performance, Fang Lei quickly accepted this theory and was about to go back today to experiment.

Although Fang Lei is only sixteen years old and often has to work, can he be less powerful?

While Liu Mingqi was talking with the Empress Dowager here, Fang Lei, with the help of Dazhu and others, installed the toilet and carefully pieced together each part.

It is one thing to have the toilet installed, but if you want to use it comfortably, you have to ensure that there is water at any time.

However, there are no tap water pipes in this era.

If you want to build a tap water pipe in the palace, it would be a big project, and Liu Mingqi doesn't have this free time.

He didn't even go far to build a septic tank, so he went outside the Cining Gate, near the open space near the Longzong Gate. He dug a pit of ten meters deep and five meters wide, and then made a huge iron barrel of the same size. The copper pipe dug out of the Cining Palace's bedroom diagonally went straight down into the barrel.

From then on, every one or two days, the eunuchs in the palace took out the filth and put it into the night incense bucket and transported it out of the palace.

The toilet needs clean water in the porcelain water tank at any time to flush away the filth.

The solution Liu Mingqi thought was to make a copper water tank that was ten times larger than the porcelain water tank of the toilet, and place it above the toilet water tank so that water can be supplied at any time.

But if you put such a large water storage tank in the toilet and not only have too much volume, can eunuchs come here often and take a ladder to add water?

The Queen Mother is too vague, right?

So Liu Mingqi placed the large water tank in the outer room five meters away next door and connected the toilet water tank with copper pipes.

The ribbed fitting pipe link is used in the middle of the copper pipe, which is convenient for turning and folding.

In this way, the eunuchs don’t have to worry about disturbing the Queen Mother’s rest at any time, and the toilet will not have the hidden worries of lack of water.

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Note: The name and pattern of the capital, inner city, imperial city, and imperial palace are integrated into the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties. Please let me know.
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